Assistant Professor Department of English University of Missouri michaelrmarlo@gmail.com
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Recent HighlightsCV [09 July 2010]I am currently working on a handful of projects, including revisions of my papers "Paradigms and questionnaires" and "Prefix-stem fusion in Bantu" and studies of the tonal systems of several varieties of Luyia: Logoori (with David Odden), two tonal varieties of Marachi, Nyala-West (with Kristopher Ebarb and Peter Otiato), Tiriki (with Billy Jivetti), and Wanga (with Chris Green). In the 2011-2012 academic year, I will be on research leave. [20 March 2012]. I am currently teaching Field Methods in Linguistics and Phonology. Our Field Methods course of 19 undergraduate and 1 graduate student is currently studying the Tiriki variety of Luyia with Billy Jivetti, a University of Missouri Ph.D. student in Rural Sociology, who is originally from Kaimosi, Kenya. In Fall 2011, I taught Structure of American English and, for the first time ever, Syntax. In 2010-2011, I taught Human Language, Structure of American English (twice), and Phonology, and I sat in on Vicki Carstens' Field Methods course on Nyaturu. [20 March 2012]. PapersParadigms and questionnaires: studying the verbal tone system of a Bantu language [updated draft of 03 September 2011]. 'Prefix-stem fusion in Bantu' [draft of 15 September 2010; email me for more recent updates].
'Non-spurious H-toned extensions in Nyala-West', with Kristopher Ebarb. Paper presented at ACAL 41, University of Toronto and University of York, May 6-8.
'Conditioning factors in the realization of tone: Nyala-West verbs', with Kristopher Ebarb, In Samuel Obeng, Jon Anderson, &Chris Green, eds., Indiana University Working Papers in Linguistics 8: African Linguistics Across the Discipline, 85-107. [19 January 2010].
'Luyia tonal dialectology'. 2009. Paper presented at University of Nairobi, Department of Linguistics and Languages, Nairobi, Kenya, 16 December.
‘Tonal melodies and Meeussen’s Rule in Khayo’ to appear in Masangu Matondo, ed., Studies in Bantu Linguistics and Languages: Papers in memory of Professor Rugatiri Mekacha, Bayreuth: Bayreuth African Studies [28 November 2009].
‘Khayo verbal tonology’ Africana Linguistica 15 (2009): 77-129. Appendix [02 November 2009]. ‘Tura verbal tonology’ Studies in African Linguistics 37.2 (2008): 153-243 [02 November 2009]. ‘Problems in Kuria H Tone Assignment’ minor revisions of earlier draft [17 April 2009]. ‘Bantu tone bibliography’ [26 November 2008]. As noted on the Luyia Dictionary Project site, we have begun editing individual Luyia dictionaries through online collaboration using the WeSay software. Please contact me if you are interested in assisting in any of the work. Some older materials are below [11 August 2011]: Lightly edited comparative wordlist of Kisa, Tsotso, Appleby 1943, and Wanga [24 January 2010]. Unedited comparative wordlist of Idakho, Appleby 1943, and Wanga [24 January 2010]. Unedited comparative wordlist of Tura, Appleby 1943, and Wanga [24 January 2010]. Ndanyi & Ndanyi's 2005 monolingual Logoori dictionary Amang'ana go Lulimi lwo Lulogooli (part1, part2, part3, part4, part5) [02 November 2009]. L.L. Appleby’s 1943 Luluhya-English Vocabulary and the Friends Africa Mission Press 1940 Luragoli-English Vocabulary [10 March 2009]. Handwritten materials on Idakho (x2), Isukha, Kabarasi, Khayo (x2), Kisa, Logoori (x2), Nyala-West, Nyore, Saamia, Tachoni, Tiriki (x2), Tsotso, and Tura [available here: Luyia Dictionary Project, 08 December 2008]. |  Khalaba, Kenya, July 2006  Mandovu in Tsavo East National Park, Kenya, September 2006  Boda boda driver hauling egunia across the Kenya-Uganda border. Busia, Kenya, July 2006, Photo by Moses Egesa  Circumcision candidate near Bungoma, Kenya, August 2006 |